by unthink | Dec 15, 2025 | Blog Post
We measure others with yardsticks they’ve never seen. Expectations we’ve carried for years, shaped by experiences they’ll never know. That executive who taught us punctuality equals respect. The mentor who showed us how to prepare is a way of...
by unthink | Dec 4, 2025 | Blog Post
My son asked me something last week that stopped me cold. “Why would adults lie?” We’d been discussing someone’s behavior—the small evasions, the careful omissions, the gray-area truths. He couldn’t fathom it. Kids lie out of fear, he...
by unthink | Nov 21, 2025 | Blog Post
I caught myself mid-sentence yesterday with a client. “You need to…” Stop. That’s not my job. My job isn’t to tell founders what they need. It’s to help them see what they already know but haven’t admitted yet. There’s...
by unthink | Nov 17, 2025 | Blog Post
The decision is made. Workforce reductions. Necessary for survival. But here’s where we fool ourselves. We announce the cuts, then add a generous notice period because we “care.” Three months, sometimes more. Time to find their next opportunity, we...
by unthink | Sep 28, 2025 | Blog Post
Nice is overrated. We’ve been trained to believe that nice equals good. That politeness trumps progress. Avoiding discomfort is often more important than creating change. But nice has a problem: it doesn’t help. The colleague who says nothing about the...
